Liz Mason has been self-publishing for seventeen years. Her work has been printed in such publications as The Chicago Tribune, Punk Planet, Venus, Lumpen and The Zine Yearbook. Recent published works includePunk Rock Glee Club #1, Caboose #9 Masons On Masons: How to Start a Secret SocietyandBritney Spears 101, which focuses on her experience undergoing treatment for Hodgkin's Lymphoma cancer, as seen through the lens of consumerism, celebrity obsession and public scrutiny. She has appeared on the reality show Starting Over to provide instruction on publishing zines, which NBC executives referred to as “pamphlets,” as if they were Marxist propaganda. She is currently the manager of Quimby’s Bookstore, home of wild and weird reading material in Chicago, where she has worked since 2001.